This is an analysis of the poem Thee, God, I Come From that begins with:

Thee, God, I come from, to thee go,
All day long I like fountain flow ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaba ccXc dddd ddXd eXbe bbXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110011 11111101 0111101 1101101 1110111 1010011 11101110 1001100 1110111 1111101 1011111 1010110 1111111 1001101 111111 0111111 1110111 1110010 1010111 1111110 1111111 1110011 0111010010 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, thou, my are repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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